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Air Force, Northrop Conduct Static Fire Test of Sentinel ICBM Rocket Motor

The U.S. Air Force has conducted a static fire test of the stage-3 solid rocket motor of the ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile system being developed by Northrop Grumman as a replacement for the Minuteman III ICBM. The test was conducted at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee and validated the design and performance of the LGM-35A Sentinel's propulsion system, the Air Force Materiel Command said Saturday.

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March 18, 2024, 7:00 am
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General Dynamics Electric Boat Christens Navy’s 26th Virginia-Class Submarine

General Dynamics' electric boat subsidiary has christened PCU Idaho, the U.S. Navy's 26th Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine, which is designed to support anti-submarine and surface ship warfare and special operations. Terry Stackley, the ship sponsor, performed the bottle break that christened the vessel, which is the first Navy submarine to be named after the state of Idaho, General Dynamics Electric Boat said in a LinkedIn post published Sunday.

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March 18, 2024, 5:25 am
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Leidos Delivers Test Version of SLS Universal Stage Adapter to NASA

Leidos has delivered to NASA a test version of the universal stage adapter that will be used to connect the exploration upper stage of the Block 1B variant Space Launch System to the Orion spacecraft. NASA said Wednesday the full-scale prototype arrived at Building 4619 at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where it will undergo modal testing to validate dynamic models and ultimate load testing to assess the test article's structure.

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March 15, 2024, 7:27 am
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Valor Equity CTO Constantine Saab Appointed to Peraton Advisory Board

Constantine Saab, managing director and chief technology officer at Valor Equity Partners, has joined the advisory board of Peraton. Saab, an 18-year CIA veteran, will provide strategic counsel to Peraton's senior leadership team on shaping the company's business goals and objectives, the company said Thursday.

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March 15, 2024, 6:55 am
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Esri Books $56M NGA Task Order for Foundation GEOINT Modernization

Esri has secured a two-year, $56.2 million task order to continue helping the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provide foundational geospatial intelligence services to users worldwide. The task order was awarded under NGA's blanket purchase agreement and extends cloud, software development and database services on Esri's proprietary systems, the agency said Tuesday.

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March 14, 2024, 11:23 am
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Ashley Meade Transitions to VP of Operations/AFRICAP Program Manager Post at Amentum

Ashley Meade, formerly senior director of operations at Amentum, has been named vice president of operations and program manager of the Africa Peacekeeping Program. She was director of operations and AFRICAP program manager at PAE, now part of Amentum, for nearly three years and was a senior pricing policy analyst at Lockheed Martin before joining PAE.

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March 14, 2024, 10:57 am
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IBM, NASA Team Up to Build Transformer-Based Language Models for Scientific Community

IBM has teamed up with NASA to build a suite of transformer architecture-based language models designed to give the scientific and academic community access to vast amounts of scientific knowledge and information. The IBM-NASA models were trained on 60 billion tokens from a collection of astrophysics, earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and biological and physical sciences data.

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March 13, 2024, 5:51 am
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LMI Receives $65M Army Enterprise Resource Planning System Support Contract; Jon Baba Quoted

LMI has secured a five-year, $65 million contract to help the U.S. Army manage and transform its logistics and financial management information enterprise resource planning system. The company said Tuesday it will provide business transformation, program management and technical, financial and professional advisory services in support of the Global Combat Support System-Army platform.

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March 13, 2024, 5:34 am
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Lockheed Taps GA-EMS to Build Missile Tracking Payloads for Tracking Layer Satellites

General Atomics' electromagnetic systems division has secured a contract from Lockheed Martin's space business arm to build and deliver missile warning, tracking and defense payloads for integration into the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellites. GA-EMS will produce 16 wide-field-of-view missile warning and tracking infrared payloads and two fire control and missile defense infrared payloads for integration into the 18 satellites Lockheed is building for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture's tracking layer, General Atomics said Monday.

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March 12, 2024, 7:46 am
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Northrop Grumman Secures Army Digital Radar Warning Receiver Production Contract

Northrop Grumman has secured a five-year contract from the U.S. Army to produce the initial batches of next-generation digital radar warning receivers designed to protect military assets from advanced airborne threats. The AN/APR-39E(V)2 is an open-architecture technology that uses a smart antenna and advanced processing to detect radio frequency threats over a broad range of spectrum, including the millimeter-wave band of frequencies, Northop said Monday.

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March 12, 2024, 7:24 am
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NASA Posts Solicitation for Space Weather Next L1 Series Coronagraph Instruments

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has released a solicitation for the development of flight instruments for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series Coronagraph program. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov states that NASA will launch a full and open competition to design, analyze, develop and fabricate three flight coronagraph instruments for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program.

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March 11, 2024, 5:56 am
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AWS Secures FedRAMP High Authorization for Wickr Communications Encryption Service

Amazon Web Services has secured High authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its end-to-end encrypted service available for AWS GovCloud customers in the U.S. West region. AWS Wickr is an encrypted communications service that uses a 256-bit encryption technique to enable government and commercial customers to secure group messaging, voice and video calling, screen sharing and file sharing, AWS said Thursday.

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March 11, 2024, 3:47 am